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    Opinion: What good is an electric vehicle if there's no electricity?     1317245280

    A Glut Of EVs Could Make America's Shoddy Power Grid Even Worse

    The increasingly rickety American power grid seems to short out for all sorts of reasons.
    It took just one worker in Yuma, Arizona to plunge millions of people into the dark in the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, a few weeks back. A ...

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    Report: Power companies need to upgrade grid to prepare for electric cars     1263994080

    2011 Chevrolet Volt – Click above for high-res image gallery
    The onslaught of electric vehicles expected to hit the market over the next five years, such as the Chevrolet Volt (pictured above), is keeping many local power utilities up at night. The dilemma has to do with the power supply ...

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    Curiosity: Report says we have 35x more HP in our driveways than our power plants     1250696400

    It may not be a particularly glamorous definition of the automobile, but it's true on some level that cars and trucks are individual little power generators on wheels, a fact pointed out here by Wired staff writer Alexis Madrigal. Interestingly, when viewed in that light, the United States has an ...

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    State intends to find out how much stress plug-in hybrids would put on grid     1205323500

    Judging by the vast array of plug-in hybrids at the past few auto show, it's reasonable to assume that at some point in the next ten to 15 years there could be millions of vehicles plugging into our nation's power grid. The Michigan Public Service Commission will be looking at this issue over the ...

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